All the Coolest WhatsApp Tips and Tricks at Once Place

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Whatsapp is probably one of the very few apps that have got such a huge userbase. So big that every 1 person on this planet uses it.

WhatsApp is a revolutionary app that has made communication so affordable and fast. We send hundreds of texts to our friends and family every day. Not just text messages, but images, videos, voice notes, express ourselves using the emojis, share our day with Status Stories (many people hated this initially).

WhatsApp can easily be considered, SMS 2.0, it’s everything SMS couldn’t be. Now enough with the hype, let’s get straight to the list.

WhatsApp gives you full control over what things you want to show to others and what things you want to hide.

This can be done from the Settings-Account-Privacy

2 Manage WhatsApp Media Files Clutter on Your Android Smartphone

If you use WhatsApp a lot or have joined a lot of active groups, you might be aware of the number of photos your phone is storing.

Though the photo files won’t take a lot of space on your phone, it can add up to be a lot in a few weeks.

Stop WhatsApp from downloading the files automatically, you can turn it off from Settings -Data usage. Turn off media auto-download by unchecking all the options.

Also, most of the smartphone doesn’t show images from different folders in the Gallery App, but in case your phone doesn’t do that itself, you can do it manually the ‘.nomedia’ the trick still works well.

To do that, go to the WhatsApp Media Folder then the Image Folder on your phone (you can use ES Explorer) and create a new file with name .nomedia. This will hide the images from that folder in the Gallery App.

Read receipts are actually useful to know when a person has seen your message. So I keep it turned on.

But there are times when you want to cheat and see the messages without notifying the sender. Here is a neat trick for that.

If the message appears in the Notification Bar. Swipe using two fingers, it will reveal the last message.

If you want to read more messages,

Turn off mobile data, or put your phone in Airplane mode, open WhatsApp, read the messages and turn on the mobile data again or disable Airplane mode. Neat isn’t it.

4. Create a WhatsApp account without your phone number

If you are an Admin of a WhatsApp group and looking to expand it by asking random people to join it, you may not want to share your personal number with them.

Or if you want to share your WhatsApp online

It could be any reason for not sharing your personal phone number. You can get an online phone number using apps like 2ndLine (Android app) – You just need it to verify the WhatsApp.

Note: Online phone number can be assigned to others if you delete your account on their service, 2ndLine, in this case, so make sure you do not delete your account as long as you want to use the WhatsApp.

5. Send Any File Format to WhatsApp Contacts (Dropbox)

WhatsApp has expanded the file support in last few years. Users can now share Images, Videos, Audio Files, PDFs etc. But you can literally share any file format you want with this cool trick.

You can even share large files, as big as a movie, you need Dropbox for that.

The Free account of Dropbox offers 2GB of space (enough for two HD movies. What you need to do is, upload the file to Dropbox, create a link by tapping on the ‘Share’ option, copy and paste the link into your WhatsApp Contact.

6. Pin Frequently Use Contacts on top to message them quickly

Small features like these can make life really easy, such a the ability to Pin Chats. If you are a frequent WhatsApp user, mixing up the chats will sound familiar to you.

A new update allows you to pin the chats are that are important, long press on the chat and a Pin icon appear on the tip, tap the Pin icon and the chat is pinned at the top.

No more searching through all the frequent chats to find important ones.

7. Use WhatsApp as a Personal Space for Saving Important Notes, File etc and Access it from Mobile and PC

Now that you know you share any type of file on WhatsApp, you can use WhatsApp as your personal space, a personal diary, a note-taking app or a place to dump ideas.

I have been using it lately for things like, checking a website link later or watch a video, or a document, the best part is, ability to access them from PC using WhatsApp Web.

Use this tip #6 to Pin your Personal Notes Group to the top so that it comes handy.

8. Create GIFs from Videos Captured via your Smartphone

WhatsApp enabled the GIF support a few months ago, According to me, they are better than small videos because they don’t open in full screen and can be viewed as an image.

WhatsApp also allows you to turn 6 seconds of your videos into GIF.

Capture a video, select the start and end point (it has to be 6 second or lesser part), you will notice ‘GIF’ option appear on the top, which turns the video into a GIF.

9. Quickly know who all are in a WhatsApp Group

This one is simple, You might know this already but I use it for finding who is there in the group. Type @, which lets you tag a Member in a WhatsApp group (and notify them even if they’ve muted the group).

But if you only type ‘@’ it gives you a list of all the members, which comes in quite handy sometimes to see who all are there in the group or how many members are they outside of your own contacts (only their phone number will display)

10. Find who all are inactive in a WhatsApp Group

Talking about groups, they are quite popular and are basically used by Families and Friends to keep in touch all the time. There are also Business groups, Office Colleagues Groups, Students groups, you name it.

Most of us are so many groups that we tend to keep them muted and next get to check what’s going on. If you are on the opposite side of this situation and want to know who is inactive in the group.

You can do so by going back to the previous chats (your 7-day old message in the group), long tap on it, and tap on info (i) and look at all the members who read, got the message delivered and who didn’t get delivered.

Though the WhatsApp Groups limit has been extended up to 250 members, you can remove a few inactive members if you have to make a place for others.

11. Run 2 WhatsApp Accounts in a Single Smartphone

Most phones these days are Dual SIM Phones, and if you use two SIMs, for different purposes, like Personal and Official. I won’t be surprised if you want to run two different WhatsApp accounts.

Xiaomi phones have this feature inbuilt into their Custom ROM where you can run two accounts on the same app.

There are times when someone shares an important piece of information via a WhatsApp text (because it’s SMS 2.0) but that text can easily get lost in thousands of messages you type on WhatsApp (because it’s free and fun to use).

The Starred feature comes to the rescue as you can start any message/image/video/voice note etc so that it will be easy to find them later.

14. Listen to Voice Notes in Privately using the Earpiece

Most of us use their earphones to listen or watch anything on our Smartphones. But we don’t have the earphones all the time and it could be embarrassing to listen to a voice note sent by a friend all loud in public.

WhatsApp’s cool feature allows you to listen to the voice note via the earpiece instead of the speakers.

To do that, play the voice note and place the smartphone near your ears as if you are taking a call. Your smartphone’s proximity sensor activates and the voice note is played via the earpiece. Pretty Cool isn’t it?

15. Set Custom Notification Tones for Individuals and Groups to know who is it without even looking at the phone

I’ve set up a different Notification Tone for Groups and Individual Chats so that I can know whether to pick the phone to read the message right now or do it later, most of the times it’s a MEME sent in a group.

If you often find yourself in a situation where you have to send a message to someone who is not in your contact list, and since WhatsApp doesn’t allow anyone to send a message outside of your contact list, you end up adding the contact number then message.

This app can help you by sending messages to the numbers that are not saved. For example, if you have to share your location with a Courrier Guy and that Pizza Delivery Guy, this will come handy.

18. Hide a Chat from the list without Deleting it (aka Archive Chat)

One cool feature of Android that is rarely used is the Archive feature. By long pressing a Chat, you can archive it and it will not show up in the list.

You don’t always want to delete a conversation, and just want to stop appearing it on the list for a while. By long pressing a Chat, you can archive it and it will not show up in the list.

By long pressing a Chat, you can archive it and it will not show up in the list. You can unArchive it anytime.

19. Write WhatsApp Messages in Different Fonts Styles

This has been making rounds in mostly all the posts talking about WhatsApp tips and tricks.

Different formats actually help you present your message differently. With the combination of Bold and Italic styles, you can put emphasis on particular words in your message.

To write in Bold add an asterisk (*) before and after the text. (eg: *Hello*)

To write in Italics add an Underscore (_) before and after the text (eg: _Hello_)

To write in strikethrough add a tilde (~) before and after the text (eg: ~Hello~)

To type in a different font style add apostrophe (”’) three times before and after the text (eg: ”’Hello”’)

20. Draw Over Photos/Videos taken by WhatsApp Camera to Highlight Something in the Photo/ Video

Another update for WhatsApp has brought the feature of drawing over the photos taken from the WhatsApp Camera ( i/e Camera option in WhatsApp).

So instead of editing a photo for pointing something out, take a photo directly from the WhatsApp camera and then draw/write over it. Saves a lot of time.

21. Post longer Videos as Status Updates

WhatsApp lets you post videos that are 30 second long. Even if you try to post longer, it will chop it down for 30 seconds. Fortunately, it lets you select which 30 seconds part of the video you want to post.

22: Share your WhatsApp Trick in the Comments

If you know or have found a cool trick you use on WhatsApp let us know in the comments below. This post keeps getting updated when we find more so make sure you turn on the notifications to know about it.

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